Can you really tell the sex of the baby by looking at the bump?

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Aunties always say it. My SIL had a boy and she had a huge, sticky-out, low hanging bump. I’m having a girl, and mine is kind of pushed up and sort of flat. No-one knows I’m having a girl mind, but aunties are guessing (and correctly so!)

I mean, it makes noooooooooooo scientific sense whatsoever - how can the difference in one tiny piece of anatomy determine the shape of your entire baby bump?! I used to laugh it off - but now I’m getting freaked out at how many aunties are correctly guessing the sex of my unborn child! :cb:

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I think they’re just lucky the times they guess right.. perhaps right in your case but they guessed wrong for someone else lol

Congrats on your pregnancy btw :flower1:

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lol hey after all it’s 50/50 chance anyway :smiley:

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mine was popped out and everyone said its a boy bit I had a girl

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Thanks Deeba!

Hasn’t anyone else come across this notion before - or is it just me? I know it’s 50/50 - that’s exactly what I used to think. Actually, I still believe it. But sooooo many people I know say that you can tell by looking at the shape of the bump: hasn’t anyone else heard of this before? I imagined it’s a particularly desi trait?

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i can percuss and tell lol jk

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Yeah aunties used to guess from looking at my bump too always saying it looks like a boy. I have two girls mash Allah. smh

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Old wives’ tale.

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totally old wives tale.

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I’ve seen this to be VERY true for some mothers and completely inaccurate for others. Definitely nothing more than coincidence.

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everybody was saying girl to me but i had a boy

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Nope lol

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Lol - if it’s a coincidence then why do people come across as being SO sure? It’s my baby and even I couldn’t guess until I found out lol

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Yes, I had that bumb that you speak of, the one where EVERYONE and their mother told me it would be a boy. Even complete strangers would come up to me in the mall and say “that’s a boy.”

It was to the point where we sort of starting believing that it would be a boy and in the end it ended up being a girl and I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo OVER the moon. Daughter’s are the GREATEST gift in the world!